Financial Stress and Budget Concerns
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Hello, everyone. How are you doing? I'm in a great mood. Well, actually, I am waiting. I am waiting on some money to hit my bank account. So I am not happy about that because last time it hit my bank account at 628 a.m. So why hasn't it hit my bank account yet?
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I am just here checking my email and getting excited every time I get an email alert and that shit has not hit yet and I want it and I need it to hit.
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because I make a budget in Excel. I make a spreadsheet. I've been doing this since I was, you know, practically a teenager and I color code my expenses and I update them all the time. So and I put dates for when I'm paying for what and such and such. So I want this money to hit already and it's just making me nervous because it's Friday.
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I'm like, is y'all gonna wait until Monday? I don't want y'all to wait until Monday.
Excitement for Wicked and Praise for Performances
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So I am annoyed because a enormous slash life-changing project that I've been working on that is going to come out in the first quarter of next year and
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my publicist does not like something that is connected to the project. So now I have to pay to redo that particular something that she is not a fan of. And so I want my money in my account. But other than that, I am in a really good mood because I am going to see Wicked this weekend.
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Ah, yes, I did see the Broadway play, but who cares? I don't think you need to see the play to be interested in Wicked with its insanely good songs and its great, phenomenal cast. So Ariana Grande, like, Sheikah sang down. She has the pipes. Needless to say, and then so does Cynthia.
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I am like so dyslexic with Cynthia's last name. I always like, I'm like, is it Aviro or Arrivo or Vero or like, what? It's like, I don't know. There's a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to like Cynthia's name. Like I'm just confused.
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anyways, Cynthia obviously could sing down. Cynthia is also is obviously a major talent vocally, she is unmatched.
Cynthia Erivo's Relationship and Public Interest
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But with Cynthia, her acting is also very, very good. Like she killed it playing Harriet Tubman. I was salty about a British person playing one of the most prominent beloved
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American icons, like I'm over it. I'm over us casting UK actors, British actors to play all of our icons, like it's very offensive. But that aside, like she crushed as Harriet Tubman, I watched that movie in theaters with my family anyways. So Cynthia, I will say, it's kind of funny to me. I find it humorous how
00:03:46
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Seriously, Cynthia takes herself like she takes herself very seriously. As I said, she's obviously one of the most talented people in the world. But I also like I feel like she needs to chill.
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And I need to listen to her interview on Dax Shepard's podcast, The Armchair Expert. Dax is very talented, extremely talented podcast host, but maybe I just haven't like seen Cynthia be Cynthia enough. Maybe I've witnessed Cynthia more as Cynthia the actress.
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And as the actress, I feel like she kind of has a stick up her ass. And if I was that talented, I would be a snob because I'm not talented and I already have a lot of snob in me. But my point is, I think she should relax a little bit.
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And I find it really odd that like she went into Wicked looking one size and then she was around bony ass Ariana Grande and then she shrunk in size. I also wanna see Cynthia with hair. I don't like what she got going on with the bald head. Like I'm not, I don't enjoy it.
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And then I last I really need Cynthia and Lena ways to start walking red carpet hand in hand we they have been fucking for like four years right like. What do you all think y'all is doing we're not entitled to know what they're doing however like.
Talent in Entertainment vs. Viral Fame
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Why the secrecy? I'm just confused about it. And you know, they don't got to do red carpets, but there's just no public acknowledgement of their relationship other than Lena will go to Cynthia's events. Lena will post mostly in her story something about Cynthia, Lena will like posts that mentioned Cynthia on Instagram. I'm like, why is y'all dating in the dark?
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like we we already know are they trying to shield us from the people who don't know i just i don't understand it i don't like it i also really can't picture them having sex and
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I know that makes me a, you know, disgusting pervert, but I want to be able to picture two people having sex if I know that they are having sex. That is important to perverts like me, okay? And I cannot, I cannot picture Lena mounting Cynthia. I cannot picture Cynthia mounting Lena.
00:06:19
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Cynthia or sorry Lena and her ex-wife like they were like beyond sexy Like I could picture them fucking all day, but Cynthia and Lena like I don't see it and And I think part of the reason why I don't see it is because I've never seen them together. They're just hiding their relationship And I wonder like where is this relationship supposed to go?
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Are y'all just gonna have sex for the end of all time and not acknowledge each other? Not get married, not publicly acknowledge each other? Like, what the fuck is happening? I feel like they've been together long enough to be out of the woods. You know, Taylor Swift has a song out of the woods. That's all about how like, when you're dating someone early on, like, a lot can happen.
00:07:05
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A lot could go wrong. It can end. You're not out of the woods yet. They've been out of the woods for years, so I don't get this closeted relationship. Because at some point, don't you gotta go public? What the fuck is y'all doing? Anyways, so I'm excited to see Wicked because
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I love it. Let's be honest, a lot of people who don't got talent today are rewarded. A lot of people go viral on TikTok and they're rewarded.
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You got your hawk to a bitch, right? You got people, no talent, who just basically come into millions. So I rather support people who actually have talent. I rather support people who have been trained to do what it is they do and what they're compensated for. And that is Cynthia. And that is Ariana. And that is this cast. And I'm happy to support true talent.
Jussie Smollett's Legal Drama
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And that is all part of why I'm happy to see Wicked. And I feel tempted to do a review, but I'm not a movie reviewer. That all ties back into what I said about talent and qualifications for success. Like, I gotta let the people who've seen Wicked on Broadway
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multiple times who've studied the history of it, who really know the ins and outs of the Broadway production and can really give great detail about how much the film adaptation honors the Broadway play and why. Those are the people who should be reviewing Wicked, not people like myself. So moving on, first we had Jesse Smollett.
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We had Jussie Smollett having his case, his conviction overturned, basically charges dropped. That's a wrap, curtains. And then we got the, I can't say their name, them Nigerian brothers. They went on Fox and Friends this morning. Why? Because as I said yesterday, Jussie Smollett is the face of bullshit.
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He is the face of someone who lied about a hate crime because he was like a liberal who lied about a hate crime and therefore honestly hurt liberals and conservatives. He hurt everyone. He hurt everyone who's actually the victim of a legitimate hate crime. So the Republican party, they love to mock Jussie Smollett.
00:10:00
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And so the Nigerian brothers and I love the Nigerian brothers for this stay on his neck Remain on his neck. I really hope that Fox and Friends compensated them. I hope they flew them out Well, I don't know if it was all New York, but let's just pretend they flew the brothers out First class put them up in a nice fancy hotel and paid them heavy for going on Fox and Friends
00:10:26
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Because if I knew a Jussie Smollett, I'm gonna make money off of that too. Because I do not want to act like I'm supporting that type of fuck shit in any way.
Jonathan Majors and Megan Good's Relationship Speculations
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I'm gonna be on Fox and Friends.
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I sure would saying, you know, my friend is a piece, my ex friend is a piece of shit. And basically they're saying like, they don't know why Jesse is still lying about it, which I've said, I hope that that will change. Like Jesse, he's not winning. We all know he's a liar. So might as well say it.
00:10:59
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Like, go on your apology tour, your redemption tour, a lot of people do it. Get some of us to get a little bit of respect for you that you obliterated. It's, I don't know, like I said, who the fuck is backing him? Who's on his team? Why the hell is his manager, agent, publicist, whoever, why aren't they pushing him to apologize? Like,
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like maybe it's coming maybe a book is coming maybe a podcast is coming we y'all know these celebrities love to put out these podcasts maybe a book a podcast a docu-series interviews something needs to come out where Jesse clears his name
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as a liar by going from being a liar to an admitted liar, okay? Because this whole plan of like, I'm innocent, not when the people you paid are going on TV saying you need to fucking apologize.
00:12:09
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What a clown. Anyway, so right after the day after Jussie Smollett had his conviction overturned, we got Jonathan Majors winning, like now we're two for two with black men in November, like just being free, just being exonerated.
00:12:29
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What? And the timing of this is wild because Jonathan Majors and Megan Goode are engaged. So like, did Megan Goode pay off Jonathan's ex? Because she's tired of this being an issue and she just wants to focus on her wedding now?
00:12:49
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What's going on? The timing is so suspect. The moment after Jonathan and Megan go public with their engagement, his ex drops the case. What? Okay, so according to TMZ, Grace Jabari dropped her defamation and assault lawsuit and she cannot
00:13:15
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file her lawsuit again. That's what it means when they say prejudice. Dismissed with prejudice means you can't bring this back up, case closed. So it says all claims against a defendant are hereby dismissed with prejudice. She cannot sue his ass again. So
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TMZ says it's unclear if they came to some sort of deal for her to drop the lawsuit. TMZ has reached out to Grace's lawyers and Jonathan's lawyers. Obviously they did not respond. So Grace filed her lawsuit in March of this year.
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With several claims of abuse, she says she suffered at majors at Jonathan's hands, starting when they first began dating in 2021.
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According to Grace, she says that Jonathan threw her into a shower wall and allegedly threw objects at her. She also accused him of assaulting her inside a car in March of 2023. We all saw that footage of Jonathan running on the street.
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So that assault trial ended with him being convicted of misdemeanor assault and harassment, but he was not found guilty on all other charges. He was sentenced to one year of counseling in April and no jail time. Grace claims, but as we know, Grace's lawsuit damaged his
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TMZ is saying one's promising career. It's like, no, Jonathan actually had a thriving career, wasn't a promising career. He had a thriving career and he lost everything. So Jonathan has always denied Grace's claims. All right. Jonathan, there are reports that Jonathan has only dated white women and that he started dating Megan to win the public over or whatever.
00:15:23
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I was never into Jonathan, I have made that clear. I don't really give a fuck about anything related to Jonathan.
00:15:32
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And like him and Megan, they can write off in the sunset together. As long as Megan keeps on doing Harlem, I'm good.
Reflections on Megan Good's Choices
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So it's like what they got going on is none of my business. And hopefully he's a better person. Hopefully if he did what Grace claims that he did, hopefully that counseling that he's maybe has been in since April or May,
00:16:00
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maybe that's helped or maybe that's helping he has to do one year of it right so i don't think that that stipulation was removed because i was the one year of counseling is for his actual conviction not this separate case so you know people could change people can improve
00:16:20
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And it will be interesting to see if his career is revived now that this particular case is closed, is finished. Because as we know, as we've seen, the majority of people who get quote unquote canceled, they just need a certain amount of years away from the public before they could have a comeback.
00:16:47
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Doesn't apply to everyone. Some crimes are just unforgivable. But a lot of times they come back. We've certainly seen pretty much every white man who has pummeled their partner or partners come back thriving. So it will almost feel racist if Jonathan is not able to do the same.
00:17:10
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So I guess we'll have to stay tuned. But you know, I do think that Megan is so, she's such a pick me for, she's so desperate for Jonathan. I could see her getting Jonathan cast on her projects. And I could see her even like launching a production studio to get him in front of the camera. Like I just, I hope he loves her. I really hope he's not dating her just for PR.
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But I hope she's happy. I hope they're happy. I hope that he's a better person than he allegedly was. All I know is we need to not harass Megan. Megan is very happy.
Closing Thoughts and Legal Anticipations
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Megan seems to be very in love. It's Megan's life. It's her business. And I really hope that people are being kind to her in the comments online.
00:18:01
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and the people that she meets and interacts with. She doesn't deserve the burden of having to pay for her fiancé's crimes or how he is perceived by the public. Like, their relationship is their relationship. It could be different.
00:18:21
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They could be really great and happy and healthy together. We're not gonna know either way, but I hope that she is not harassed. She definitely doesn't deserve that.
00:18:31
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She seems to be in love with love. And I wish the best for her. Megan seems likable. I would hate to meet Megan and find out that she's a see you next Tuesday. Cause she just seems really likable. So I'm just wishing them well. And I wonder who's going to get off next. That's what I want to see. Cause it seems like a streak. I wonder if Diddy is behind bars like, okay, the black men are getting off. I'm next.
00:19:01
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I just wonder who may be next. All right, y'all. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. And I'll talk to you soon. Maybe before Monday, we'll see. We will see.